Among the thousands of oil field trucks criss-crossing Texas: Trucks hauling solid waste from drilling pits to landfills. But a Longview-based company has a way to turn that oil field trash into something useful — roads and new drilling pads.

It was initially developed for federal Superfund sites as a way to safely lock up contaminated soil. “They were looking at processes that encapsulate the waste for thousands of years,” said Blake Scott, president of the company.